Cohousing-L Mailing List: CCNRs and policy manuals

[LK Dingeldein (lkdingeldein1]

Dear Co-Housers,

Hello from the Milagro Co-Housing Community in Tucson, Arizona!
I have a question that I hope other cohousing communities can assist me in 
answering. 
Milagro has CCNRs which meet standard home owners associations requirements. In 
addition, we have a policy manual, formally adopted by our community,
which is more detailed and describes how our community is organized, our 
decision-making process, etc.  My question is, are there other communities who 
have developed internal policy manuals like these? Are these policy manuals 
legally tied to the CCNRs? If they are, do these policy manuals have the same 
force and effect as CCNRs do?  

I am in search of examples of what other cohousing communities are doing about 
this.
Or, to learn of any resources that can help us address these questions.

Thank you,

Libby Dingeldein
Milagro Co Housing Community
Tucson, Arizona 
www.milagrocohousing.org<http://www.milagrocohousing.org/>